endosymbiont
noun
endosymbiont is a noun meaning “An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-D-O-S-Y-M-B-I-O-N-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of endosymbiont is endosymbionts.
What does endosymbiont mean?
noun
- 1
An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of endosymbiont
- endosymbionts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is endosymbiont?
Endosymbiont appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does endosymbiont come from?
From endo- + symbiont.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).